Take A Guided Hike on the Spine Path

The Spine Path is the most recent long-distance climbing path in Los Angeles. Over 40 years (!), land administration companies painstakingly assembled the 69 mile lengthy route within the Santa Monica Mountains from Will Rogers State Park to the Pacific Ocean at Level Mugu State Park, lastly finishing the venture in 2016. Right now, whereas it’s attainable to hike all the route from starting to finish, if you wish to tackle the Spine Path like a standard lengthy distance hike you’re going to run into some challenges. Specifically, it’s actually, actually robust to camp on the Spine Path.

The few campgrounds on the Spine Path should not evenly distributed alongside the path. Within the 16 miles between Circle X Ranch and the Ray Miller Trailhead, there are two established campgrounds on the path and one established and one backcountry campground which are a bit off the route of the Spine Path itself. After that, it’s about 40 miles to the subsequent on-trail backcountry camp at Musch Camp.

Whereas there are plans to assist hikers get entry to extra campgrounds alongside the best way, proper now it’s a bit robust for most people who need to thru-hike the Spine Path to search out tenting spots.

Enter the parents at Path Magic Adventures, who’re providing the primary and up to now solely all-inclusive thru-hiking expertise for the Spine Path. They’ve partnered with the quite a few land administration and park companies and personal landowners alongside the Spine Path to arrange easy-to-access campgrounds (with flush bathrooms, even!).

a personal campground on the Spine Path

Along with the campgrounds, Path Magic Adventures additionally gives individuals with just about every little thing you’d want on the path aside from boots (yup – they even care for water). You’ll be climbing the majority of the Spine Path with only a day pack in your again.

Should you’re not the thru-hiking sort however nonetheless need to get some stable path time with people who know what they’re doing, Path Magic Adventures additionally affords 5 completely different part hikes over weekends so you may break up the expertise into extra manageable chunks.

Via-Hike the Spine Path with a Low cost

As a part of their launch efforts, Path Magic Adventures is making things a bit bit cheaper for Fashionable Hiker readers. As soon as you choose some dates or construct your personal customized hike, use the code modernhiker at reserving to attain your self a pleasant 10% low cost on the value. They’ll be including extra open dates and also you’ll need to get in on them quickly earlier than summer time temperatures make climbing within the Santa Monicas a bit sweatier.

Fashionable Hiker receives a fee once you use our customized reserving code — so that you get to avoid wasting money AND help the very best supply of free on-line climbing data within the West! Win-win!